Tours Mint

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1399. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (22mm, 1.66 g, 5h). Class 2. Turones (Tours) mint. Struck 819-822. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée / TVRO/NES in two lines; • between. Coupland, Money –; Depeyrot 1036; M&G 371 var. (pellet at end of rev. legend); MEC 1, 785. Good VF, toned.

From the Michael Joffre Collection, purchased from Andy Singer, 2004.